The fundamental reason all are running *nix seems to be that no other OS
reports uptime . . . even many *nixs with reputations for reliability
evidently don't report uptime.  (However note that NT5 *does* report uptime.
. . .)

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FROM the applicable NETCRAFT FAQ:

Operating systems we can usually work out uptimes for are:

BSD/OS
FreeBSD [but not the default configuration in versions 3 and later]
HP-UX [recent versions]
IRIX
Linux 2.1 kernel and later, except on Alpha processor based systems
MaxOSX
NetBSD/OpenBSD [recent versions]
NT4 up to service pack 3
Solaris 2.6 and later
Windows 2000
Operating systems that do not provide uptime information include;

AIX
AS/400
AmigaOS
Compaq Tru64
DG/UX
MacOS
NetWare
NT3/Windows 95
NT4 SP4, SP6 [and the information from service pack 5 seems unreliable]
OS/2
OS/390
SCO UNIX
Sony NEWS-OS
SunOS 4
VM
Additionally, NT4 uptimes cycle back to zero after 49.7 days, and give
timestamps exactly as if the machine had been rebooted at this precise
point, while HP-UX, Linux, Solaris and recent releases of FreeBSD also cycle
back to zero after 497 days. NT4 SP5 sometimes gives unreliable data,
appearing as a "swarm of bees" effect on a graph


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of
> der.hans
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 7:21 AM
> To: quatsch
> Subject: netcraft uptimes
>
>
> moin, moin,
>
> http://uptime.netcraft.com/today/top.avg.html
>
> Gee, I wonder why all 50[1] of them are running some sore of *NIX :).
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>
> [1] Presuming www.oracle.at and www.oracle.co.at are the same box:
>
> Connected to www.oracle.at.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> GET / HTTP/1.0
>
> HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 14:14:54 GMT
> Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) FrontPage/4.0.4.3 mod_ssl/2.3.3 OpenSSL/0.9.3a
> Location: http://home.netway.at/
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: text/html
>
> --
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> # It's up to the reader to make the book interesting.
> # An author has only the opportunity to make it uninteresting. - der.hans
>
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